How much does an air fryer cost per month in Kansas?

About $1.65 a month, assuming 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year at 15.71¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does an air fryer use?

Roughly 126 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 1.05 kWh for every hour it runs.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Kansas has the 22nd cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $23.11 a year.

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Cost to run an air fryer in Kansas (June 2026 rates)

At 15.71¢ per kilowatt-hour — Kansas's average residential price in June 2026 — running an air fryer costs $19.79 a year. That is 14% less than the national average of $23.11. Kansas's residential rate is up 4.5% from June 2025, which moves this appliance from $18.95 to $19.79 a year.

Per hour: 16.5¢
Per day of use: 6.6¢
Per month: $1.65
Per year: $19.79

Assumption: 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year — 126 kWh a year. A 5-quart basket model, roughly 25 minutes of cooking a day. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Kansas compares

Kansas pays 15.71¢/kWh, the 22nd cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $3.31 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same air fryer costs $16.52 a year in Nevada and $66.43 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $49.91 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
West Virginia	15.45¢	$1.62	$19.47
South Carolina	15.55¢	$1.63	$19.59
Kansas	15.71¢	$1.65	$19.79
Iowa	15.93¢	$1.67	$20.07
Texas	15.94¢	$1.67	$20.08

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for an air fryer.

What else costs about the same in Kansas

Washing machine$20.42 a year in KS Laptop$18.85 a year in KS Box fan$17.67 a year in KS

Cutting the number down

The saving is not the wattage, it is the volume: a small cavity reaches temperature in two minutes instead of twelve.
Cooking two batches back to back skips the second preheat entirely.

Questions

How much does an air fryer cost per month in Kansas?: About $1.65 a month, assuming 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year at 15.71¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does an air fryer use?: Roughly 126 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 1.05 kWh for every hour it runs.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Kansas has the 22nd cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $23.11 a year.